2.5 months sober and loving it
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2.5 months sober and loving it
Hi all,
I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm 36 years old and in two weeks will get my 90 day chip. That will be the longest I have ever been sober in my adult life.
Like many of you, I had known I was an alcoholic for several years. I just didn't know what to do about it. It was not unusual for me to drink a half-gallon of vodka or rum in one day. I was having serious health and legal issues, and I had run off every friend I had.
For years I tried everything I knew to quit drinking on my own. After a long (3-4 month) bender, I would man up and dry myself out (something I do not recommend for anyone who drank as much as I did). After a week of pure hell, I would finally start to feel better. It wouldn't take very long, though, before I would be feeling great and the agony I had just gone through would be forgotten. I would usually make it a month, sometimes two, before I would feel like I could drink again and it would somehow be different this time. In less than a week I would be back to worse than I was before I dried out.
I don't know what made me decide to try AA. I think I just got so sick and tired of fighting my alcoholism that I finally just gave up. I was on day three of a particularly bad withdrawal when I dragged myself into a meeting. I wasn't sure I would be able to make it the whole hour without throwing up. But after the meeting, a man came up to me and told me that I looked like I was in a lot of pain and asked if I was ready to quit drinking for good. I told him I was, and he gave me his number. He said "Call me when you get home, I will show you how you never have to take another drink ever again."
I almost deleted his number from my phone later that night, but I am so glad I didn't. That man is now my sponsor, and I am now not only sober, but learning how to live soberly through working the steps. While I am not experienced enough to say for sure that the obsession to drink has been removed, I now wake in the mornings without fear of relapse.
I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm 36 years old and in two weeks will get my 90 day chip. That will be the longest I have ever been sober in my adult life.
Like many of you, I had known I was an alcoholic for several years. I just didn't know what to do about it. It was not unusual for me to drink a half-gallon of vodka or rum in one day. I was having serious health and legal issues, and I had run off every friend I had.
For years I tried everything I knew to quit drinking on my own. After a long (3-4 month) bender, I would man up and dry myself out (something I do not recommend for anyone who drank as much as I did). After a week of pure hell, I would finally start to feel better. It wouldn't take very long, though, before I would be feeling great and the agony I had just gone through would be forgotten. I would usually make it a month, sometimes two, before I would feel like I could drink again and it would somehow be different this time. In less than a week I would be back to worse than I was before I dried out.
I don't know what made me decide to try AA. I think I just got so sick and tired of fighting my alcoholism that I finally just gave up. I was on day three of a particularly bad withdrawal when I dragged myself into a meeting. I wasn't sure I would be able to make it the whole hour without throwing up. But after the meeting, a man came up to me and told me that I looked like I was in a lot of pain and asked if I was ready to quit drinking for good. I told him I was, and he gave me his number. He said "Call me when you get home, I will show you how you never have to take another drink ever again."
I almost deleted his number from my phone later that night, but I am so glad I didn't. That man is now my sponsor, and I am now not only sober, but learning how to live soberly through working the steps. While I am not experienced enough to say for sure that the obsession to drink has been removed, I now wake in the mornings without fear of relapse.
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